Psycho alleged killer attacks 48 people at Rikers Island in 2 years but solitary not an option because of NYC ban

He’s a terror on the streets and a nightmare behind bars.Sundance Oliver, 30, a Brooklyn gangbanger locked up on murder charges for allegedly killing two people and wounding a third, has been just as violent at Rikers Island — attacking 48 officers and civilian employees at the jail complex, correction union officials told The Post.Now, the union says it needs backup from the city after the latest pair of assaults on its officers.“I’m traumatized,” one of the victims, a seven-year veteran of the department, told The Post.

“I keep replaying this this scene, almost getting choked out and then seeing my partner getting beaten on.“I don’t sleep.I fear for my safety,” she said.

“These types of inmates, especially an inmate like Sundance, he needs to be on 24-hour lockdown.He needs to be isolated because staff is just going to continue getting hit.

We already deal with the trauma of working in jail, because we are technically locked up like these guys.It’s worse that you come to work and you’re getting assaulted.”However, “punitive segregation,” or solitary confinement, isn’t an option after Mayor Eric Adams last year signed an executive order banning it — leaving the union pleading for help.

Officials said 80 jail employees have been assaulted by various inmates so far this year.“We are calling for the DOC to assign several members of our Strategic Response Team to provide security escorts within the facility for this dangerous inmate in order to keep our officers safe,” Benny Boscio, president of the city Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, said in a statement.“Just in the span of one week two female correction officers and one male correction officer were assaulted in unprovoked attacks by one of the most violent criminals in our custody,” Boscio said.“Since he entered Rikers in December of 2022 this inmate has gone on a rampage, assaulting 45 correction officers and three civilians.”Oliver, an ex-con and re...